On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 13:57:59 +0200
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+hua...@kernel.org> wrote:

> Em Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:59:34 +0200
> Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com> escreveu:
> 
> > On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 08:13:28 +0200
> > Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+hua...@kernel.org> wrote:
> >   
> > > The current logic is based on a lot of duct tape, with
> > > offsets calculated based on one define with the number of
> > > source IDs and an enum.
> > > 
> > > Rewrite the logic in a way that it would be more resilient
> > > of code changes, by moving the source ID count to an enum
> > > and make the offset calculus more explicit.
> > > 
> > > Such change was inspired on a patch from Jonathan Cameron
> > > splitting the logic to get the CPER address on a separate
> > > function, as this will be needed to support generic error
> > > injection.    
> > 
> > so this patch switches to using HEST to lookup error status block
> > by source id, though nothing in commit message mentions that.
> > Perhaps it's time to rewrite commit message to be more
> > specific/clear on what it's doing.  
> > 
> > now, I'd split this on several patches that should also take care of
> > wiring needed to preserve old lookup to keep migration with 9.1 machines
> > working:
[...]


> >  6. cleanup fwcfg based on x-has-hardware_errors_addr,
> >        i.e. for 'true':
> >           ask for write pointer to hardware_errors like it's done in 
> > current code
> >           and don't register hest_addr write pointer
> >        while for 'false'
> >           do opposite of above.  
> 
> This doesn't work. without the fw_cfg logic for both, QEMU/BIOS won't boot 
> and/or the hardware_errors won't work, causing ghes to do nothing.

we should look more into it,
only 1 of them hest_addr(9.2+) or hwerror_addr(9.1) is necessary
so if it breaks, it looks like a bug somewhere to me.

> 
[...]
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Mauro
> 


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